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An AI Health Coach Could Change Your Mindset
Katharine Miller
Apr 23
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Using LLMs To Improve Workplace Social Skills
Katharine Miller
Apr 20
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AI’s ‘Delusional Spirals’ (and What to Do About Them)
Andrew Myers
Apr 20
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AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery
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An AI Health Coach Could Change Your Mindset
Katharine Miller
Apr 23
News
Bloom, a health coaching app created by Stanford researchers, helps people tap into their own motivations.
Using LLMs To Improve Workplace Social Skills
Katharine Miller
Apr 20
News
Practicing specific social skills with AI chatbots helps users build confidence and competence.
Using LLMs To Improve Workplace Social Skills
Katharine Miller
Apr 20
News
Practicing specific social skills with AI chatbots helps users build confidence and competence.
Want To Understand The Current State Of AI? Check Out These Charts.
MIT Technology Review
Apr 13
Media Mention
"If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI can’t even read a clock. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, AI’s annual report card, comes out today and cuts through some of that noise."
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The 2026 AI Index Report
Is Here
This year's Index reveals a widening gap between what AI can do and how prepared we are to manage it. While AI continues its rapid integration into the global economy – with technical capabilities improving, investment accelerating, and adoption spreading – the frameworks needed to govern, evaluate, and understand this technology are falling behind. In a field where data transparency is declining, independent, rigorous measurement has never been more critical. This report provides the most comprehensive analysis of AI's trajectory available.
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Research
Our vision for the future is led by our commitment to studying, guiding, and developing human-centered AI technologies and applications. We believe AI should be collaborative, augmentative, and enhancing human productivity and quality of life.
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We empower leaders in education, policy, and civil society with AI fundamentals to amplify their impact for humanity.
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Focusing on AI technologies across industries and their business implications, Stanford faculty offer courses for leaders and key decision-makers.
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Exploring the unique opportunities and challenges that AI presents in civil society, philanthropy, and nonprofits.
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Policymakers and civil servants are at the front lines of decision-making on emerging technologies such as AI. Recognizing the valuable role they play in the AI governance ecosystem, Stanford HAI has developed specialized training programs to meet their needs.
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Christine Baker
Educating the next generation of AI leaders is core to what HAI is all about. Essential to this mission are leaders and decision makers within the K-12 ecosystem, teachers, and students.
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Stanford’s seven leading schools on the same campus enable HAI to offer a multidisciplinary approach to education.
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Through evidence-based research and global convenings, our policy work equips decision-makers with key insights into AI governance’s challenges and opportunities.
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We have a historical opportunity and responsibility to establish a human-centered framework
for AI research, education, practice and policy.
— Fei-Fei Li
Denning Co-Director
At HAI, we view the field of AI as spanning the entire university. Unless we tap into the full gamut of disciplinary expertise we cannot hope to realize the potential of the technology while avoiding its pitfalls.
— John Etchemendy
Denning Co-Director
Using LLMs To Improve Workplace Social Skills
Katharine Miller
Apr 20
News
Practicing specific social skills with AI chatbots helps users build confidence and competence.
AI’s ‘Delusional Spirals’ (and What to Do About Them)
Andrew Myers
Apr 20
News
In a world where chatbots can stand in for friends, counselors, and even lovers, the mental health risks are a growing concern.
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Dilemma: When Superpowered AI Gets Risky
Forbes
Apr 16
Media Mention
"The 2026 Stanford AI Index Report, released this month, highlights a sharp increase in AI adoption in medicine. It notes a significant rise in AI uses for clinical documentation, medical imaging, and diagnostic reasoning. That growth may improve efficiency. But it also expands the attack surface for public health if mis-deployed."
Tensions Over AI Reach New High After Violent Attacks
The Hill
Apr 15
Media Mention
"Stanford University on Monday released its annual AI Index Report, showing AI experts and the U.S. public have drastically different views on AI’s societal impact, while nervousness on AI products increased slightly."
Fellowships
HAI was established to support innovative AI research that bridges disciplines and fields. The Institute aims to appoint and support promising researchers through its fellowship programs who are working at intersections often overlooked by traditional academic departments, in addition to outstanding researchers pursuing core disciplinary topics.
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The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI  strives to foster a culture of interdisciplinary AI research in which technological advancements are inextricably linked to research about their potential societal impacts. HAI builds on the strength of Stanford research by offering many grant programs.
Student Affinity Groups
Affinity Groups provide a space for students to share ideas, develop intellectually and strengthen the community of future leaders dedicated to building AI that benefits all of humanity.
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An AI Health Coach Could Change Your Mindset
Katharine Miller
Healthcare
Generative AI
Apr 23
Bloom, a health coaching app created by Stanford researchers, helps people tap into their own motivations.
Joint California Summit on Generative AI
Highlighted in Governor Newsom's Executive Order, the Joint California Summit on Generative AI will focused on how the State can best use Generative AI to better serve the people of California and the impacts of GenAI on California and its workforce.
AI + Policy Symposium: A Global Stocktaking
Concerns over the societal impacts of generative AI are prompting a flurry of regulatory and policy responses globally, with initiatives underway in the EU, China, Brazil, Japan, Singapore, the UK, and the US, as well as through multilateral organizations such as the UN, OECD, the African Union, and ASEAN. Proposals range widely, reflecting competing political philosophies.
Tech Ethics & Policy Summer Fellowships
Aug 27
Policymaker Education
Oct 06
Policymakers and civil servants are at the front lines of decision-making on emerging technologies such as AI. Recognizing the valuable role they play in the AI governance ecosystem, Stanford HAI has developed specialized training programs to meet their needs.